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Australian Anthropology in Its Colonial Context
In this chapter I sketch the colonial milieu of Australian anthropology, focusing in particular on the historical roots of the bifurcation between...
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A preliminary analysis of the effectiveness of online practical laboratory delivery using 3D models for higher education courses in biological anthropology
Practical-based laboratory instruction represents a substantial component of education in biological anthropology, a multidisciplinary field...
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Medical Anthropology
This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the...
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Medical Anthropology
This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the...
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Westermarckian Elements in Bronislaw Malinowski’s Anthropology
At LSE, Westermarck’s closest student and colleague was Bronislaw Malinowski. Malinowski is often described as the founder of modern social...
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Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century
What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting...
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Theoretical exploration of Chinese anthropology and ethnology: the road to construct the Chinese School
This paper starts with the four factors that affect Chinese anthropology and ethnology: the Soviet school of ethnology, Marxist ethnology, Western...
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The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection
The Vrolik ethnographical collection consisted of roughly 300 skulls, mummified heads, skeletons, pelvises, wet-preserved preparations, and plaster...
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Anthropology and Biology
This review of the anthropology and biology—including the neurobiology and neural underpinnings—of boredom provides new data and perspectives of the...
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Australian Muslims and Religious Authority
Chapter 4 examines Australian Muslim perspectives on religious authority. It analyses fieldwork data from imams, academics, educators and survey...
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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts...
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The logos of techné: A Case for Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology
This chapter develops the potential of a literal understanding of technology (as logos of techné), to develop an interdisciplinary anthropology....
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Sociology and Anthropology
There is much confusion about the relationship between sociology and anthropology, not only among students, but also among the representatives of the...
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Introduction: For a History of Anthropology in the Plural
What are the reasons behind the “scientific” positioning that anthropology had adopted since its origins up to a few decades ago? They were certainly...
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Women in Australian Archaeology: Challenges and Achievements
This chapter outlines how interconnected networks of women have shaped the development of Australian archaeology from 1960 to the present. We have...
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The Diverse Accounts of Anthropology in Viet Nam
The account of the introduction and development of anthropology in Vietnam crosses and embodies the events of the twentieth century in a surprising...
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Visuality and Anthropology: Drawings, Painting, Photography, and Movie
Drawing, painting, photography, and film footage are important research tools in social and cultural anthropology. In this chapter, the author...
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“The Great Australian Kosher Barbecue”
This chapter explores conceptualizations of Jewishness as an ethnic or cultural identity, in addition to a religious one, and constructions of Jewish...
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Old and New Dynastic Orders: German Anthropology in the Era of Bismarck
The culture of German Anthropology in the latter half of the nineteenth century can be compared to the culture of Vatican anthropology in the first...